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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: VaderDawsn on July 15, 2011, 01:08:53 pm
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Rabbits on the Run
Vanessa Carlton (Razor & Tie)
Ever since hitting in 2002 with lite-radio standards “A Thousand Miles” and “Ordinary Day,” singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton has been casting about for a viable second act to her career. It took her awhile, but she’s gotten there. “Rabbits on the Run” reintroduces her as an indie-pop impressionist with a daydream in her head and her foot on the damper pedal of her piano. A few of the compositions on this brief collection recall her prior existence as a major label moneymaker, but the arrangements are spare and drowned in analog echo. The more straightforward songs (“Carousel,” “Dear California”) sound indebted to Liz Phair’s piano pop experiments, and the denser second half of the disc tiptoes toward misty Aislers Set territory. Carlton’s pastel chalk mark of a voice fits this style better than it ever did when she was in heavy rotation, and she’s sharpened her melodies, too: “London,” in particular, is a jeweled bracelet of notes. Carlton wins extra points for converting R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” — perhaps inadvertently, and perhaps not — into a twee anti-proposal called “I Don’t Want to Be a Bride.”
— Tris McCall
Source: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/07/cd_reviews_ashton_shepard_the.html
I like how the reviewer refers to VC as a "indie-pop impressionist".
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Ha! I liked the R.Kelly comparison.
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Cool review! That's hilarious about the R Kelly allusion, I NEVER would have thought of it, but the choruses sound kinda similar in terms of the melody.
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Cool review! That's hilarious about the R Kelly allusion, I NEVER would have thought of it, but the choruses sound kinda similar in terms of the melody.
The similarities are quite obvious, but I don't think V meant it that way.
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Ugh. "Impressionist"? :-\
SHE. SHOULD. RELEASE. BRIDE.
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Cool review! That's hilarious about the R Kelly allusion, I NEVER would have thought of it, but the choruses sound kinda similar in terms of the melody.
I agree. The melody on the chorus part sounds similar.
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Ugh. "Impressionist"? :-\
SHE. SHOULD. RELEASE. BRIDE.
I second this idea.
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haha..... this is a fun review........ I like the kinda different views... and love the comparisons..... IDWTBAB is a 'Bracelet' :) That seems so just.... fitting..... :) I can't wait to hear it! I've been waiting and wiating!!!!!!!!! :)